“Punctuation marks in Hebrew are relics of a brutal colonial system.”
Hachette is a French company that is also one of the big 3 foreign publishers that have taken over the American book industry. Like its German counterparts, Hachette has pushed out toxic woke garbage like ‘In Defense of Looting’ while suppressing books by conservatives and critics of woke abuses. Now, Hachette has managed to publish a book by an Iranian author accusing Jews of punctuation genocide.
The book is “On the Mark: From Periods to Interrobangs, How Punctuation Remade the World” by Florence Hazrat, who has an Iranian background, and no survey of punctuation could not be complete without claiming that the Jews are a fake people who use punctuation to claim a fake peoplehood.
This ambition inevitably leads to overreach. If punctuation played a role in everything, what about, say, the war in Gaza? Hazrat finds a link. “Punctuation marks in Hebrew,” she explains, “are relics of a brutal colonial system that is far from over.” Adding punctuation turned Hebrew into a spoken language, “paving the way for an artificial sense of unity among Jewish people from all over the globe, encouraging them to move to the land that already had people—a people made to suffer and bear the brunt of European anti-Semitism in the most horrendous ways for generations.” It seems (the reason is not altogether clear) that, had Yiddish been the official language of Israel, atrocities might have been avoided.
Florence Hazrat’s sentences make no coherent sense: maybe she should be fixing her own punctuation rather than examining that of others.
The “sense of unity among Jewish people” dates back thousands of years and its origins in Egyptian slavery are recorded in the religious history of much of the world, including Islam, and has nothing to do with punctuation marks. Hebrew was a spoken language thousands of years ago and its most notable work is the world’s best-selling book, perhaps Hazrat can open a copy some day.
Hazrat is confusing Hebrew with Arabic, where punctuation marks were added, leading Muslims to complain that the punctuation marks were ‘colonialism’.
But, more to the point, Hachette feels comfortable peddling this sort of antisemitic third world slop that would once have been a MEMRI clip to American audiences, even while canceling Jewish authors.
Carmen says
Muslims are just jealous because their brains still live in Medieval times along with their camels
somehistory says
This is way beyond stupid… Just more lies and stupid pronouncements to make their enemies (Jews and Christians) seem to be the worst people ever born.
That even punctuation is for murdering an entire people is a lie too far.
Perhaps that deadly punctuation should be taken into the prisons in Israel. The U.K, needs some too. Lots and lots of terrorists locked up in both countries.
Siddhi Nasranni says
Here is some ”Punctuation marks,” This; is Genocide’ .the Idiot’s have spoken!
( ;:’>.<,?/+=-_*^!" ) So this is Genocide so arrest me already.
As I think everyday the world can not get any madder, it does. It never disapoints me.
somehistory says
The punctuation you display, reminds me of the days when that represented curse words people didn’t dare to say.
Mama didn’t actually say’ there’d be days like this’, but Jesus did.
gravenimage says
US Publisher Puts Out Iranian Author’s Book Claiming Jewish Punctuation is Genocide
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So now *punctuation* is “genocide”? More and more insanity.
Jayell1 says
Absolutely! It seems like the person concerned here might benefit from some professional help.
gravenimage says
Yes–but as Muslim apologists see it *everything* done by Infidels–Jews, especially–is “Islamamophobic”, or even–as here–“genocide”.
Beans🫘 says
“Most diplomats will leave the British consulate in occupied East Jerusalem.”
“UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband responded that some staff had been “temporarily withdrawn” for security reasons, and stressed the mission would continue “our work with the Palestinian people”.
—- very sad state of affairs. I don’t understand what Europeans and westerners see in these Palestinian hordes.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Send her back to the islamic republic – the IRGC desperately needs fighters
ploome says
more inanity from Breitbart
Professor Guangtian Ha, who teaches at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, has been arrested and charged with online harassment and intimidation after he directed “heinous” antisemitic attacks against a Jewish colleague.
Ha, a professor of religion at the school, was on sabbatical leave and not teaching this year, according to the president’s message.(Chinese muslim)
Some of the professor’s purported messages include, “Jew, get the fuck out of my country,” “Jew pig, get the fuck out of Lower Merion,” and “If jews are so special then they should also be placed in special camps and receive special treatments.”
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“LM jews are going to have it big time, jew. Remember this. You scums have had it too easy. Goyim are taking America back, blood-guzzling demons,” Ha allegedly continued in another message to his colleague.
“@[Victim 1] Eliminate the jewish cockroaches. Exterminate the jewish state. [Victim 1], you will have nowhere to go. Your family has no future in the US. Give it another 10 years, and you shall see a true holocaust,” another message read.”
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Professor Ha was once described by his colleagues as, “one of the most innovative, interesting, and engaged scholars of Islam in China.”
– “Jew get the f*ck out of my country.”
– “If Jews are so special, they should be placed in special camps and receive special treatment.”
In an online interview, he said that it’s important to introduce Islam in China by showing its beauty and charm first, then discuss its politics and tenets. 😬
This lunatic arrived in our nation from Beijing for graduate studies at Columbia University.
He has a lengthy history of public antisemitism, but Haverford College refused to fire him.
We currently have 40,000 foreign professors on visas in America.
Not 400. Not 4,000. 40,000.
Siddhi Nasranni says
Just read some where that China classified Islam as ” Mental Disease.”
gravenimage says
Very troubling, Ploome.
ploome says
would be interesting to hear what he thinks about all Americans
or gays, or blacks
he knows where hw can get the most traction and probably support
very sad …considering Jews are a truly positive population-not violent, law abiding, educated, productive and philanthropic
in every facet of civic life
(except Schumer and Bernie of course)
Chief Mac says
A member of the largest colonial enterprise on the planet- the Islamofascist Empire is whining about colonization by indigenous people of their own homeland
Rarely528 says
Oh the humanity!!!
We should give these people marks for originality and imagination.
And give the people who believe this garbage marks for idiocy and gullibility.
And there are lots of them. What’s this World coming to?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I do hope that in a post islamic Iran, the Iranians not only ban islam, but also change their script from the Arabic Nastaliq, which is representative of islam, to the Avestan/Pahlavi script that they had before the Arab conquests. That will end the genocidal punctuation of Farsi: since islamic republicans are guilty of projection, I suspect that the same is true about this one